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:This article is about the movie. For the literature, see Pulp magazine.
Pulp Fiction is a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was released in 1994. The stories were written by Tarantino and Roger Avary.
The cast includes:
- John Travolta as Vincent Vega
- Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield
- Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace
- Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolf
- Tim Roth as Pumpkin
- Amanda Plummer as Honey Bunny
- Maria de Madeiros as Fabienne
- Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
- Eric Stoltz as Lance
- Rosanna Arquette as Jody
- Christopher Walken as Captain Koons
- Bruce WillisBruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 as Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor. Born at a military base in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, he was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey and moved to New York to become an actor. He first found fame with his starring rol as Butch
- Quentin Tarantino as Jimmie
- Steve BuscemiSteve Buscemi (born December 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film and stage character actor, and also a former New York City firefighter. His first lead role was opposite Richard Ganoug in Parting Glances (1986). He is an associate member o as Surly Buddy Holly Waiter
Half film noirFilm noir is a genre of film based in large part on the hard-boiled detective novels that grew out of naturalism, a movement in literature based on realism. Film noir is French for "black film", and is pronounced accordingly ("film nwahr"): the plural is and half black comedyBlack comedy also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with "serious" subjects death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. A scene in the play Waiting for Godot is a good example of black comedy: A man takes, Pulp Fiction weaves through the intersecting storylines of gangsters, general low-lifes, and a mysterious briefcase. Following Quentin Tarantino's more traditional crime movie, Reservoir DogsMovie Facts Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut as a feature film director. It co-stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, and Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino also has a minor role. The screenplay, written by Tara, the storyline is chopped up and shown out of sequence, a technique borrowed from French new waveThe New Wave ( French: Nouvelle vague of French cinema was a cinematic style of the 1960s. The writers of the magazine Cahiers du cinema decided to apply their theories of the auteur — the director as the center of all moviemaking — to the world by direct and Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick ( July 26, 1928 March 7, 1999) was a Jewish- American film director born in The Bronx, New York City who lived most of his life in England. His films are highly acclaimed for their technical perfection and deep symbolism. As a director he's The KillingThe Killing is director Stanley Kubrick's only "crime" genre film and his last wholly "commercial" effort. Sterling Hayden organizes a crew to commit a race track heist and things don't go as planned. The film's use of shifting time and points of view inf.
Originally titled Black Mask, the film won the 1994 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. Tarantino and Avary also won Oscars for the Screenplay in the same year.
The success of Pulp Fiction spurred studios to release a slew of 'copycat' films soon after that tried to duplicate the film's formula of witty dialogue, an unconventional storyline, and gritty subject matter. Most, if not all of these films, did not fare well at the box office and were dismissed by critics as inferior and derivative.
